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👮 Can be arrested ⛔ Able to stop
arrestable

arrestable

4.8
Able to be stopped or controlled
  • adjective
  • /əˈrɛstəbl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : controlable
  • Doctors considered the condition arrestable if treated in its early stages.

Examples

  • Engineers worked quickly to ensure the malfunction was arrestable before causing further damage.

  • Is the bleeding arrestable with pressure?

  • The spread of the disease was still arrestable with immediate medical intervention.

  • The fire was arrestable with immediate action.

  • The spread of the disease was still arrestable with immediate medical intervention.

  • Doctors considered the condition arrestable if treated in its early stages.

  • Engineers worked quickly to ensure the malfunction was arrestable before causing further damage.

Synonyms

stoppable
vsarrestable
1 3.4

Can be made to end

is used mainly for physical, medical, or mechanical cases stressing control

Antonyms

unstoppable
79 4.0

Impossible to prevent from continuing or reaching its goal

uncontrollable
47 4.9

Not able to be held back

Surface Forms

arrestable positive

Morphology

arrestable = arrest (semi-transparent) = arrest + able

The formation 'arrest' + '-able' is regular, but this sense (stoppable in medical/mechanical contexts) is specialized and less likely to be inferred by learners who know only the legal sense.

Etymology

Arrestable comes from the word arrest, which originally meant 'to stop' and is related to the simple word rest. So when something is arrestable in medicine or engineering, it means it can be stopped or brought under control.